Has your Book Club turned into a Supper Club? This must be a developmental phase that almost all reading groups go through. You meet a great group of friends. Someone proposes a Book Club. Everyone cheers, commits, suggests books. Someone offers to host. The next six months are filled with good reads, good conversations, and good meals. Then, one by one, people have trouble finding the books, someone has a new baby, someone objects to the book so they don't read it. Pretty soon you find yourself having dinner with this great group and then having to find other people to talk to about your books. I think a good Book Club One Day Vacation might be just the thing to reenergize your group.
My Book Club has loved having the Pierce College lecture series here in our back yard. We saw Arthur Golden speak soon after we read Memoirs of a Geisha. I got a note in the mail from Mickey in Sumner. She suggests that Book Clubs visit Baker Street Books in Black Diamond (http://www.bakerstreetbooks.com).
Another group I read with had a local author attend one of our meetings after we read her book, "Eating Heaven" by Jennie Shortridge. She has kept in touch and kept us thinking about the relationship between writers and readers.
If your Book Club has taken a One Day Vacation in order to revive itself, please tell us where you went and what you suggest. I will compile a list of One Day Vacations for Book Clubs and post it here. I look forward to hearing your ideas! - Sally
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